The 'Godzilla' Trailer Is Even More Epic Than We Could Have Imagined (VIDEO)

Bryan Cranston is wigging out in this trailer for "Godzilla," and after hearing that enormous lizard's roar yesterday, we can't really blame him. We got a peek at "Godzilla" last December, but the humans and how they're dealing with the literal fall-out from the monster's attack take center stage in the first official trailer from Legendary and Warner Bros. Pictures.

Cranston is no longer the one who knocks, y'all. That honor goes to Godzilla, which has managed to devastate the Statue of Liberty with just an errant swipe of its giant tail. The trailer offers some background detail on how this monster came to be, thanks to voiceovers from Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins's characters, as well as a few choice scenes of colossal damage and chaos around the world.

"The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around," intones Watanabe, while all Aaron Taylor-Johnson's character wants to know is if they can kill it. Will this monster become the destroyer of our world? We'll find out on May 16, 2014, when "Godzilla" opens in both 2D and 3D.

Still the most iconic mega-monster of all time. Worshiped as a god at home on Skull Island, he's just another rube lost in New York, one who still manages to climb to the top before falling hard for a dame he can never have. Credit Willis O'Brien, the stop-motion animator who'd been creating movie monsters since the silent era (notably, the dinosaurs of 1925's "The Lost World") for bringing the big gorilla to such vivid, scary life that he continues to haunt our dreams 80 years later.